Comment on Please create a non-secure password.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoThat’s a big rainbow table. Like, way too big to exist assuming you mean random ascii characters (on the order of 10^42^ entries).
Comment on Please create a non-secure password.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days agoThat’s a big rainbow table. Like, way too big to exist assuming you mean random ascii characters (on the order of 10^42^ entries).
teletext@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Base85 contains just about every printable ASCII character, so I’ll use that as a base. 85^16^ ~= 10^31^ -> extremely huge, but still feasible at least for state actors. 85^20^ ~= 10^39^ -> if I read Wolfram Alpha’s comparison correctly, that is more information than is believed to be contained in the DNA of a living creatures combined. That’s why I’d recommend >= 20 characters.
frezik@midwest.social 3 days ago
State actors don’t generally need to break passwords. They ask the company “nicely” and they get what they want. The exception would be if that password is being used to encrypt data.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
10^31^ is ridiculously huge too. The NSA probably works on EB scales, which is “only” 10^18^ bytes. If you can get up to 10^22^ you’re fine against brute force-style attacks.